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Best method I found as a very much non-expert in the field was simply tossing a ball straight up while sitting in a seat and framing it bare-handed as it came down....didn't get me to the big leagues (or any leagues really), but it was probably the strongest part of my game.

This is a long, but very good article, and it touches on a bunch of interesting issues. The least talked about, however, he brings up at the end. How will this affect umpires? In the long term if everyone is better at pitch framing there is the possibility that strikeouts continue to rise, or the umpires will squeeze the zone. In the short term (which he does not address) I wonder what umpires now think about the fact that certain catchers are good at fooling them. Will this change the way they call games for those pitchers? Will they give Molina's pitchers more balls, or (less likely) Doumit's pitchers more strikes?

The article even suggests this knowledge may speed the way to automated balls and strikes which will take away any advantage this skill currently has. I love unintended consequences of data.

Fascinating article. I've noticed the YES broadcasts have focused a lot more on pitch-framing this season. David Cone and Al Leiter reference it every game, and both have genuine appreciation and admiration for catchers who do it well (makes sense, as Leiter made his living on the outermost fringes of the zone). They've also expressed empathy for pitchers who suffer the defensive sins of their battery mates (especially when a catcher drags a borderline pitch out of the zone).

Damned Ryan Doumit! If he could frame pitches right, the Pirates could have traded Zach Duke, Ian Snell, Tom Gorzelanny, John Grabow, Matt Capps and the rest of the bunch for a bit more than they got, which I think amounted to Josh Harrison and half of Ronny Cedeno.

Just another voice chiming in that this is a great article, and worth its length. Obviously everyone around here is already well aware of pitch framing as an important sabermetric concept (it's THE hot topic, after all -- Fangraphs can't seem to go two days without throwing up a post about it), but what makes this article great are the thoughtful interviews with people in every part of the game -- both the Yanks' catchers (Cervelli and Stewart), Steve Yeager, Mike Fast, etc.